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    Hyperthreading

    I have seen this term used a few times and wondered if someone could explain to me exactly what it is and what the difference is from normal.

    Thanks in advance for answering a newb question...
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    HT or HyperThreading Technology - easiest way to put it. One processor acting as two. Allowing applications and the OS to have two threads(or processes) done in each cycle.
    Does not mean that a 3.0GHZ P4 w/ HT with out perform 2- pIII 1.5GHZ though. Lots of other factors come into play. Cache size being a very important one. Also two _physical_ CPUs will handle the load better than "_one_ acting as two"

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    so if I have the choice between a Dual Xeon 2.8 and a P4 3.0Ghz w/HT I take the Xeon correct?
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    Yes. Most likely that P4 is the older generation with a 512 cache. (not even sure if the 3.0 comes with the larger cache of today or not...have to check) But most likely those Xeons has a larger cache...not to mention they are a lot better.

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    Defintly as HT will not give you near the 200% performance as a Dual Box would ( I know really its like 180% but for the sake of argument)

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    Dual Xeons at that speed should have hyperthreading too, so that will be two physical CPUs, showing up as 4.

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    Don't even think about it, go for the dual xeon one, you will be impressed with the power it delivers compared against the P43.0HT.
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    I love hyperthreading and not just because the idea was invented inside my department at the UW. Check out the wikipedia defintion of HT at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading
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    so running dual xeon in HT mode is better than running them as dual CPUs with noht option in lilo.conf ?

    some ppl said it might give better performance for loaded mysql boxes, are they wrong?
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    Sure running dual xeons in HT mode is better than running them as non-ht processors.

    It's just a matter of the amount of threads that can be passed to the processor at the same time, and therefore the time it needs to complete the job.
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    Originally posted by schmeg007
    I love hyperthreading and not just because the idea was invented inside my department at the UW. Check out the wikipedia defintion of HT at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading
    The UW?

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    University of Washington Computer Science department is what I was referring to.

    EDIT:
    No, I didn't get to work on the research project, it was a bit before my time .

    A link to the project: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt/
    Last edited by schmeg007; 04-13-2004 at 03:28 AM.
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    Originally posted by schmeg007
    University of Washington Computer Science department is what I was referring to.

    EDIT:
    No, I didn't get to work on the research project, it was a bit before my time .

    A link to the project: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt/
    Wow that's awesome

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